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LETTERS
Corporate Connivance
Businessmen are
not as innocent in the matter of corruption as Tavleen Singh makes them
out to be ("Conspiracy of Silence", August 20). They are a willing
party in the politician-official-businessman nexus which is responsible
for corruption in the country. It is too complex a problem to have a simplistic
solution. Any serious effort to tackle this problem must begin with eradicating
the role of money in elections.
Dr M.L. Garg, Meerut
Unwarranted Attention
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Lax Leadership
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 Indira
Gandhi could be a decisive leader because the Congress mustered
an absolute majority on its own in Parliament ("Missing a Leader",
August 20). Due credit should be given to Atal Bihari Vajpayee for
managing a government in a fragmented Parliament, with no single
party anywhere near a clear majority.
— VIBHAKAR PATEL, Nairobi
Looking at the popularity of hard-core
power politicians like Indira, Devi Lal, Chimanbhai Patel, Bhairon
Singh Shekhawat and Jyoti Basu, it seems that either we suffer from
a slave mentality or that Machiavellian leaders provide better governance.
— PRAVEEN SINGH RATHORE, Ahmedabad
It is surprising the opinion poll did
not give any credit to P.V. Narasimha Rao. He was the only prime
minister to leave the country in a better shape than when he took
charge. India has been singularly unfortunate in not having a leader
balanced in all respects. Indira could have been a Lee Kuan Yew,
but she blew the opportunity.
— C.P. Belliappa, Coorg
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In a nation bereft of heroes it was appalling
to see reams of newsprint being devoted to the trivial injury sustained
by Sachin Tendulkar ("Foot Fault", August 27). Agreed that stress
fractures are uncommon among the lay public. But they occur rather frequently
in ballet dancers, athletes and raw recruits to the police or armed forces.
Sesamoid fractures too are not uncommon. These injuries are easily treatable
in India and it would be a national disgrace if our athletes go abroad
for treatment or for second opinion for such insignificant injuries.
—Dr Prithipal Chhabda, Vadodara
The Humane Solution
Your editorial on the ever-increasing violence
in Jammu & Kashmir was thought-provoking ("Passive Resistance",
August 20). We have always been focusing on a military solution without
realising that there could be other human dimensions to the problem. As
an intelligence officer I had the opportunity to interrogate some hard-core
Pakistan-trained militants belonging to the dreaded Lashkar-e-Toiba and
Hizb-ul Mujahideen. One thing was common in almost all such interrogations:
the arrested militants were fighting a personal war for survival without
any worthwhile commitment to jehad. The point is, what has the Indian
Government done for the economic upliftment of the state? We have not
set up any industries or other employment-generating opportunities for
the youth of this area. The genesis of terrorism lies in the economic
backwardness of this area and in nothing else. Once the problem is tackled
on this account, militancy in this area would take a back seat and the
Muslim youth will throw out all the pseudo-religious fanatic elements.
—Kuldeep Singh Sondhi, Chandigarh
It is disappointing that everybody tries to
make out Pakistan as the culprit on the Kashmir issue. India and Pakistan
both are to be blamed and both are equally responsible. The issue is not
about Pakistan or India, it is about Kashmir and its people. Let us not
be petty and try to degrade Pakistan. Peace should be on top of the agenda.
—Faizah Gilani, London
Name Preservation
There is a factual error in your article on
museums with regard to the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Mumbai
("Criminal Neglect", August 20). The statement that it had been
"renamed the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum a few years ago"
is based on the sketchy press coverage of a suggestion to rename the museum,
which however retains the original name. The authors could have at least
verified with us before making such a misleading statement.
—Dr Kalpana Desai, director, Prince of Wales
Museum of Western India, Mumbai
The error is regretted. —Editor
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